Mathis v. Redevelopment Agency

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment, rendered by a state referee exercising the powers of the Superior Court, assessing at $73,400 the damages sustained by the plaintiff in the taking of his property by the defendant by eminent domain. We find no merit to the plaintiff’s attack on the court’s finding of fact nor to his claim that the court misapplied the income method of determining fair market value. It was an appropriate method under the circumstances, considering the general condition of the property and its location in an area which was the scene of violent rioting in 1967, 1968…